Good catch! listened now through heardphones now and my guess is probably a youtube "enhancer" screwed up the sound (maybe a stereo widener). Atleast I hope thats the problem, would be a shame if the album was mastered like that

I just remembered previous Dream Theater album was first released on soundcloud and it sounded horrible. Thought maybe its a marketing thing so people would buy legit copys but that was just a guess.

I like the song.I also think they either made it sound mediocre on purpose for the online release, or the youtube compressing messed things up. Songs on youtube rarely sound as good as they sound on spotify for example, and CD still seems to be the best.